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STORM KING (MOUNTAIN-PEAK IN THE OLYMPICS), by                    
First Line: Soft glow of summer sun
Last Line: Storm king, you hold your throne!
Subject(s): Olympic (mountains), Washington


Soft glow of summer sun
On your calm brow abides,
Bright flowers overrun
Your scarred and crag-bound sides.
Cascades of sparkling brooks
Leap down where maidenhair,
In cool and shadowy nooks
Of damp rocks, clusters fair.
In brooding silence deep,
Majestic, stand the trees;
Fallen trunks lie prone, asleep,
Moss veiled in slow decease.
The Lake in crescent form,
Blue shimmering in the heat
Of summer sun, so warm,
Laves gently your cool feet.

But when about your head
The winter tempests whine, --
Snow-ridden, freezing, dread,
Wracking the staunchest pine, --
Gone then the sun's warm rays;
Brief gleams flash dull and cold, --
Then hide, as clouds; dark maze,
All sullenly enfold.
Then are you King mid bleak
Gales' fiercest battles hurled;
Unbowed, about your peak
A snowy mantle swirled.

Snows drift, and disappear
When milder spring winds blow;
Gay flowers adorn the year,
Then fade in autumn's glow.
Though countless ages roll,
With seasons' varied tone,
Yet changeless, monarch sole,
Storm King, you hold your throne!





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